Laurel Burch 'Fantastic Felines'

Laurel Burch was an American artist and designer. She reproduced many of her designs to create functional art such as enameled metal jewelry and fabric. Her art is highly decorative and vividly coloured.  While her images include fish, horses, people, flowers, butterflies and birds, I especially enjoy her cat series 'Fantastic Felines.'

Aylah

Silberzweig Inspired Portraits

Our art this week is inspired by contemporary Canadian artist Sandra Silberzweig. I love her use of bold bright colour, pattern, line and shape.

Looking at her faces, we noticed similarities to Picasso during his Cubist period, and also to African masks. It is interesting that each side of the face has different patterns on the cheeks and around the eyes - perhaps this is a reflection of the different facets of her subject's personality.....

Our Silberzweig portraits are completed using colour sticks and watercolour pencil.

Libby

Terrific Baby Turtles

It's turtle season!

This is the magical time of year when the female loggerhead turtles, after  17 to 33 years of roaming the world's oceans, return to the very beach where they were hatched, to lay a clutch of their own eggs.

The eggs take about 80 days to mature before the tiny 4.5 cm hatchling turtles emerge, digging their way out of their sandy nest and scuttling down to the ocean to begin their life in ocean. They will never return to land again, unless it is to lay their own eggs, continuing the wonderful cycle of life!

Li